Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5834

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5834
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Surface
Title:		Highest floor between walls 5483 & 5284
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5834
Page:		0
Date:		2008/06/10
Lot:		Lot 2008-019
Stratum:		22 total inclusions: 5% pottery; 5% tile; 10% fine-coarse pebbles, tabular, spherical; 2% bones
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are opening this area to get down to the same levels (10-11th c.) as we are at on the east side of wall 5483, although we will probably not reach this level by the end of the season. We area leaving a martyr where the floor meets wall 5485 and 5490 on the west side. This is the highest and latest floor level running under wall 5485 and probably over to wall 5284. This would make it the latest floor in association with the room bounded by walls 5519, 5483, 5484, and 5284. Above this floor appears to be about 0.15 m of leveling fill pedestaling wall 5485 (see notes with floor 5606 for full explanation). This context revealed soft darker dirt (5483) overlying a hard layer beneath it (5853), and a third, softer layer in the southern part of the room. We will dig 5843 next.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), plate. 4 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito, slipped style II (1140-1170), dish. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200), dish. 1 rim. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)3 rims. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. inwardly sloping rim stewpot (950-150)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		34 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		180 frag(s) 2.3 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		92 frag(s) 0.65 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron knife blade as MF 2008-22 (saved to lot); marble revetment green 1 (saved to lot); iron lump 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish bs 1 (saved to lot); glass waster opaque brown 1 (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		2nd half of 13th
Grid:		270.63-267.85E, 1023.58-1027.18N
XMin:		267.85
XMax:		270.63
YMin:		1023.58
YMax:		1027.18
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.71-84.82m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14) Report: Nezi Field 2009 by spongberg hammond lima (2009-05-20 to 2009-05-21) Coin: 2008 241